Testing Ground: Sanaz Toossi Brings Her Pulitzer Prize-Winning Play English to Broadway
I hate when we use the word family in theater, but I do make an exception for them,” Toossi tells me of that group. Funny, contemplative, and rather glamorous, she tells me that her cast is “just the most beautiful,
‘English’ Review: Pulitzer Winner Debuts on Broadway at the Top of the Class
Playwright Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer Prize winning play makes its Broadway debut in a moving, thought-provoking production.
‘English’ Broadway Review: Something Gets Lost in the Translation
The other choice is chaos — let the students run the classroom and no one learns. “English” explores the tyranny, but fudges the chaos. Left unexplained is how one incompetent student eventually aces her TOEFL. Also weakly explained is why another student, proficient in English, takes this class.
‘English’ Broadway Review: Pulitzer Winner Lives Up To Expectations In Superb Production
Absolutely nothing gets lost in the translation of Sanaz Toossi’s English as the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a group of Iranians longing for the West finally makes its Broadway debut, two years after its Off Broadway bow garnered critical raves and regional stagings won over audiences with its unfailing wit,
Review: ‘English’ Speaks Eloquently of Language and Loss
Pulitzer Prize winner Sanaz Toossi’s play about a group of Iranians studying for the Test of English as a Foreign Language transfers to Broadway in an impeccable production.
‘English’ Review: Language and Limits in a Broadway Play
Sanaz Toossi’s buoyant, Pulitzer-winning drama follows a group of Iranians learning English, highlighting the desires and circumscribed circumstances that have brought them to the class.
BROADWAY REVIEW: Pulitzer-winning drama ‘English’ is moving exploration of multilingualism
English,” Sanaz Toossi’s strikingly thoughtful and moving new Broadway play at the Roundabout Theatre, lexplores what you give up when you express yourself in a tongue not
Review Roundup: Pulitzer Prize-Winning ENGLISH Opens On Broadway
Roundabout Theatre Company's production of Sanaz Toossi's English, directed by Knud Adams, open tonight at the Todd Haimes Theatre. Read the reviews!
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Sanaz Toossi’s “English” Comes to Broadway
The Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set in an E.S.L. classroom in Iran, examines the internal displacements of learning a ...
Review: Sanaz Toossi’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ at South Coast Rep traces the faltering dreams of young Iranian women
Pulitzer Prize-winner Sanaz Toossi, who grew up in Orange County, has a homecoming of sorts with the West Coast premiere of ...
Freedom in Speech: Sanaz Toossi’s English
Sometimes I think you can only speak one language,” says a character in Sanaz Toossi’s English. “You can know two, but…” She trails off, her brows knitted and her eyes far away, leaving something ...
Review: In ‘English,’ Looking for a Language to Live In
For the students in Sanaz Toossi’s dramedy about mother tongues and other tongues, the world’s lingua franca is not exactly ...
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Video: Scenes from ENGLISH on Broadway
Sanaz Toossi's Pulitzer Prize-winning play English, directed by Knud Adams, is officially open at the Todd Haimes Theatre.
This play about learning English is a timely and brilliant must-see
Questions of identity, belonging and understanding are woven through “English,” Sanaz Toossi’s Pulitzer-winning drama, which ...
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Capital Stage presents the Sacramento premiere of "English"
Capital Stage continues its 20th anniversary season with the Sacramento premiere of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize winning play ...
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Broadway Press Day with ‘English’
Playwright Sanaz Toossi, director Knud Adams and the cast share insights into the Pulitzer Prize-winning play ahead of its ...